From: "John Delacour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 3:48 pm -0500 4/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 11/4/2003 12:27:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > GSM charsets are mostly from MES-1,etc > > This styled message contained (thanks to Microsoft) this line in the head: > > > <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; > > charset=utf-8"> > > So far as I can tell, this is gibberish and ought to be > > > <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > > My browser seems to agree with me, but I await correction.
That's normal: in HTML 4- (but not in XML or XHTML) attributes are accepted without quotes, in some limits. Also the letter case of attribute names (like element names) is not significant, and in both HTML and XML the order of attributes is never significant. So the only strange thing in this header is the presence of the 'charset=UTF-8' extra attribute in the meta element. I don't know for which browser or mail reader this is included, as it is normally set within the value of the 'content' attribute when the 'http-equiv' attribute is set to "Content-Type" (case not significant for this value). It is extremely probable that this non standard extension 'charset' attribute name is ignored, so the value specified for the standard 'content' attribute name takes precedence.
